“I often thought, and sometimes said, that Tolliver would be better off if he hadn’t undertaken the role of my backbone. And finally, she is beginning to understand that the only one in her life she can trust is her stepbrother should she stop thinking of him as her “brother?” She muses: Furthermore, she finds out that the grandson of a psychic called in on the Morgenstern case may be able to read minds. Harper and Tolliver connect with the Morgenstern family again, but Harper also experiences a more significant connection: she senses a ghost in the graveyard who communicates with her, and she doesn’t know why.

She had failed to do so, but now, in more than a remarkable coincidence, Tabitha is literally right under her feet. At the last grave, however, Harper gets a surprise, when she discovers that the old grave has a second body inside, a body she “recognizes.” Several years earlier, she had been hired to come to Nashville and try and locate the body 11-year-old Tabitha Morgenstern, a young girl apparently abducted. In this book, Harper and Tolliver travel to Memphis, after being hired by a prickly college professor to go through an old graveyard and share information about the dead with the students. Twenty-four year old Harper was struck by lightning at age 15, and ever since, she can find dead people if the approximate location is known, and she can determine the cause of their deaths.

'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.This is the second book in the Harper Connelly Mystery series, which features the team of Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver Lang who travel around the country helping to locate missing persons. Harper and Tolliver need to find the real killer to prove Harper's innocence, especially after their nocturnal visit to the cemetery in hopes that Harper can sense something more is followed by the discovery, the following morning, of a third dead body in the grave. And suspicions are raised even further because Harper had failed to find eleven-year-old Tabitha Morgenstern when she was abducted two years before. The police are convinced there's something fishy going on when the grave is opened to reveal the centuries-dead remains of a man, which they'd expected (that being his grave, after all) and a dead girl, which no one expected - except Harper, of course.

Harper is summoned to Memphis to demonstrate her unique talent, but there are still plenty of sceptics, even as Harper stands atop a grave and announces there are two bodies buried there. A bolt of lightning struck Harper Connelly when she was 15, leaving her with a strange spider web of red on her torso and right leg, episodes of weakness, shakes and headaches - and an ability to find dead people.

Grave Surprise by Charlaine Harris